It’s a long time coming but below I present to you my list of favorite lestappen fics ✨
There are probably no hidden gems but I do recommend to read all of these <3 (also it’s a way for me to catalog my fav fics so I can find them in the future)
Amnesia trope (my favorite trope of all time ever since my grandma made me watch korean soap operas)
I’ll be right beside you by @fabbyf1 : the bible and i am rereading it as we speak
The clauses of commitment by sixteenthirtythree
Killing me slowly by @saiyanwitcher: keeping me up at night and very angsty; wip
Best Kept Secret by @goldsbitch
Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat by @shoutitallout: charles max patrick dempsey terrorist bomb fic
The Kingdom, The Power, The Glory: heartbreaking, reversed amnesia, as in charles slowly starts to lose his memory aahh
i remember the colour of your eyes, cerulean blue by tournesol: technically not an amnesia au but people are being forgotten so
Lazarus rises by @ladysomething: this one is truly special and so close to my heart, one of the first fics I ever read (time travel involved which is also a favorite trope of mine)
Cursebreaker by @usedtobetam
it's an endless night, it's a starless sky by @ladysomething: following the horror movie that was the abu dhabi gp 2025 charles deals with his feelings and his affair with max
Hope under Gravestone by @usedtobetam: the fact that the conclusion of this fic is literally happening in real life at the moment is haunting me
we'd keep all our promises by @toppamplemousse: just this sentence will convince you to read it -> He has to watch from afar and be glad that flowers grew where he chose to water them.
I made my home (underneath your ribs) by @madamcontrition: It’s unfathomable—a love like that 😭
drag my feet along the floor by @toppamplemousse: lestappen boarding school love story this one hits really close to home about growing up and being afraid of what comes next
Soulmate au (something something about the inevitable and the predestined, the rain of milton keynes, the sun of maranello, whatever souls are made charles and max’s are the same)
i loved you before i knew i was supposed to by 3_33
mr. invisible and the thing by Cazio
Predestined by @usedtobetam
second soul by @fueledbyremembering
red string by @reythemandalor
(i love you) it's ruining my life by @chock-and-bates: lestappen sex tape gets leaked and i have read it 5 times already (one of my absolute favorites)
fourth finger by @drivestraight: wonderful 🥹
Where You Go, I Go by @ladysomething: literal masterpiece
Long Live (The Walls We Crashed Through) by @fabbyf1
morning comes (and you're not my baby) by @chock-and-bates
been blooming alone (over you) by @sedicivincere: hanahaki disease story; wip
The Suspension of Disbelief by @drivingstuff: wip
Sweet / angst stories with happy ending
sweet tea in the summer by @valyrfia: this one is so cuteeee
in a room full of people (i look for you) by luserstappen
old before i die. by @ladysomething: bee princess charles (who is utterly unhinged and keeps almost dying every chapter)
We were never really strangers, after all (Because of You) by leafycats
beholden to no gods by @chock-and-bates
there you’ll stand (next to me) by @toppamplemousse
60 seconds by @braakingpoint
love is our secret by @fueledbyremembering
lay all your love by @breathofnyx
hopelessly devoted to you by @alanalevenof1
et circences by @formulaocean: lestappen hunger games au (i was obsessed with this fic in 2024)
marked me like a bloodstain by @chock-and-bates: nosferatu au; wip
cry for me by @breathofnyx: i am such a geek for greek mythology so this one is chef’s kiss
I Feel The Rain by @adutchlover: lestappen olympics au
dull knives (taking my life) by hm132050: charles crashes max realizes his feelings and carlos overthrows ferrari
your future had a voice (and he spoke like me) by saltshaken: max can suddenly read minds
